This is bar fighting 101. The only thing I can add to this is when you drop your center of balance, make sure you lean forward just a bit just as Mr Douglas demonstrates - not enough to upset your balance, but enough to where the punch won't rock you back as much. I'm talking just a couple of inches. Don't just squat down or you'll go rolling backwards as soon as that punch connects.
VIDEO HERE (4:15 minutes)
It's called a sucker punch for a reason.
ReplyDeleteMy strategy is to manage distance first and foremost.
I don't want to take a full power strike anywhere on my body, period.
Exactly
DeleteIf you've got that much time it's not a sucker punch. It's just a punch.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young and just a bit quicker, I had a guy try this. I saw it at the last 1/2 sec, and pulled back with the hit. I did a full roll backwards and landed on my feet (over a car hood)It threw him off balance enough the fight stopped right there. The guy knew he couldn't get a hit so he walked away.
ReplyDeleteQuite helpful for someone like me with ZERO training. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, but having an executing plan B is sometimes necessary.
ReplyDeleteAbout every sucker punch I ever took was not advertised. Never saw it coming. Had a guy belt me in the back of the head one night at a bar. He nailed me. It was pure luck, survival instinct? Somehow immediately I grabbed my beer spun and swung on the way down. I clocked that son of a bitch. I didn't hit the ground and the haze cleared enough for me to finish the job. He was bleeding like a stuck pig and blinded by blood. Did I go overboard and punch and kick him to hard? Not even a little fuckin bit.
ReplyDeleteI've been accused of throwing a sucker punch a time or two. My father was a professional boxer and taught me the guy that throws the first punch has a 60% chance of winning a fight. Once I know the fight is inevitable, I'm going first and for blood
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I could not agree more. I always liked the guy saying, "Go ahead, throw the first punch." Done deal.
DeleteYour dad probably didn't have you throwing big loopy hooks. And he probably taught you how to throw a proper jab. A lost art. The secret to popping a jab is visualize retracting it twice as fast as you threw it. You can beat a guy to the punch with a straight jab a big percentage of the time. I never like throwing hooks. The shortest distance between two points is always a straight line.
DeleteAvoid sucker punches. Stay away from crowds. (Miss you, Remus.)
ReplyDeleteAnd stay away from cities. And ferals. And assholes. And bars at closing time. And bars period.
And keep your head on a swivel, like there's a mountain lion scoping you out.
Why are you in bars? Why did you allow the threat to be within attack range. Lots of ways to avoid this scenario from the get go. You done fucked up already Lewis.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, avoid cops, never talk to cops, neva.
Saber 7
Yeah, with the crazies out there these days, this could happen in broad daylight in the grocery store parking lot. Still though, situational awareness is the best first-line defense. That, and just plain avoiding situations where it's more apt to occur. I'm older and hopefully wiser this days, staying out of less reputable establishments.
ReplyDeleteI’m 6’4” and been 225 to 250 #’s since college....
ReplyDeleteAt 67....I still walk with my head on a swivel.....and recommend it....
Must be the police/military training.
Ed357
I sure understand yer head on a swivel. At your height and my height if I threw a jab at ya, I'd hit ya right in the nuts. That's an attempt at humor from an ol jarhead.
DeleteGood stuff.
ReplyDeleteWonder if there’s something to prevent joggers playing the knockout game
You know there is. It's just two, sometimes three numbers, steady hand and eye. Ohio Guy
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